Word: mediterranean
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...regime is sporting these days. Almost gone are the giant Orwellian portraits of the Syrian leader that once seemed to loom over every traffic intersection. Instead, less threatening pictures of Assad's son and heir apparent Bashar, 34, decorate billboards and shopwindows from the Damascus suq to the Mediterranean coast. The favorite depicts Assad in an almost holy trinity with Bashar and Basil, Assad's idealized eldest boy and chosen successor until his car-crash death in 1994. Syrians are calling the ubiquitous montage Father, Son and Holy Ghost...
...layer, or epidermis, penetrating to the lower dermis to kill abnormalities and hair follicles, lasers "wound" the skin to some degree, and healing can have complications. Long-term effects can include pigmentation changes in the skin: patients with darker complexions, such as African Americans or those of Mediterranean origin, are especially susceptible to skin lightening. And everyone is vulnerable to doctors or technicians who do not handle the equipment properly, which can result in burning...
...seas were angry, and European communism was in the throes of collapse. It was December 1989, and George Bush had arrived for a summit with Mikhail Gorbachev on the stormy waters off Malta in the Mediterranean. He introduced the Soviet President to his advisers, stopping near a reed-thin, 35-year-old African-American woman. "This is Condoleezza Rice," Bush told Gorbachev. "She tells me everything I know about the Soviet Union." Gorbachev looked her over--startled, in that setting, by the adviser's race, gender and youth. "I hope you know a lot," he said...
...eating huge quantities of saturated fat yet having low rates of cardiovascular disease: Alcoholic drinks, especially red wine, when consumed in moderation can possibly be protective. Red wine contains flavonoids that are very strong antioxidants. They exert protective and prophylactic effects. As the French and others who eat a Mediterranean diet usually consume wine with their meals, the flavonoids can begin their protective action just as the fats are entering the bloodstream. PAULA MONTEIRO CABRAL Porto, Portugal...
With Jackie it was Aristotle Onassis who could offer shelter, an insular combination of great wealth and Mediterranean escape routes. Now, with another generation, it is Vardinoyiannis. What is it about Greek shipping tycoons? The breed is conspicuous to Americans as caricature, all pinky rings and suntans, all echoes of Ari and his pals. But as individuals, they somehow remain indistinct, without celebrity, and so a royally scrutinized clan like the Kennedys can visit, take the sweet sea airs, and have opulence and privacy at the same address. If it is not always good to be a Kennedy, the solace...